Selections from the April 15, 2016 issue

COVER/Hal Crowther
The elephant’s graveyard 

EDITORIAL
Reopen Cuba; Cruz no improvement; Bern on

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Kasich calls in a few (million) favors

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Agribusiness fighting for unrestricted GMOs

DISPATCHES
Cruz turns to dereg godfather Gramm for financial advice;
McConnell: No new Supreme Court justice without NRA OK;
Alabama blocks local control on minimum wage;
Brussels bombing just one in series;
Court strikes down prison gerymandering;
Use a rain barrel, go to jail;
Climate scientist makes dire warning on sea level, superstorm;
Flint probe blames water crisis on state;
Public interest groups urge FCC to block Charter-Time Warner merger;
Trump got $2B in free media;
Obama gives Cuba taste of free press ....

JILL RICHARDSON
Eating in the dark

EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO
The Humpty Dumpty party

N. GUNASEKARAN
Robots create ‘technological unemployment’

SETH SANDRONSKY
The rotten core

BOB BURNETT
White men! Go the the end of the line!

WENONAH HAUTER
Path being cleared for bird imports from China

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Driving women up the ladder

SAM URETSKY5
Prescription drug uses depend on who you ask

JOHN YOUNG 
Ronnie, Nancy and that gay conversion

WAYNE O’LEARY
Same old same old in Clinton land

JOHN BUELL
Neoliberalism and the ‘free markets’

MARK ANDERSON
Highway bill contains free trade superhighways

BILL JOHNSTON
Feeling the bern

ERIC BLUMBERG
Heaven can’t wait

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Status quo is job 1 for corporate press

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell
Last Tango in Kabul 

DONALD KAUL
What would Nancy say?

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